The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03
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bronson Towards Big Struggle to Re-
gain Lost Ground

bronson Towards Big Struggle to Re-
gain Lost Ground
Nr,y YORK, Oct. Bronson Howard
made big struggle for lost ground with
his new play this week. He got drlbbing
from the press and the public when he pro
h d,cod MET by Chance" which he is not like
\ ", n forget. Though he had been for many
4 --yyesrs the foremost of American dramatists
4 ard a man of many charming and lOvable
A earnl qualities, he was jumped on Just as
Y Lorl when he made a failure as though he
4 had been an unknown writer or a politician
1r;tbout a pull He had everything at stake
1r;+h his new comedy and he made it a sue.
Il 49, ..The HenriettaH was filled with bright
diaopue and gave evidence in several places
of strong dramatic force. 1t was epigram-
n matte too, as Towards plays usually are, and
"A IFS triumph was due to the playwright and
u ,'ot TO the men who starred in the piece The
4 fect is that Robson and Crane are begin
nino to wear a little upon the pub
H. All last year they tried to push an old
n cbolesnerean comedy down the Threats of
A tbootre-goers whether they would OF no,
II and the Doorer the business was the harder
n tbev stuck to it. The result was that they
a LOST prestige very rapidly and they found it
N necessary to do something to attract the
81 attention of the highergrade of theatre
coers. Hence their arrangement with Mr..
q bronson Howard. But Robson and Crane
n have been acting together so long, and have
81 ca carefully nurtured their mannerisms that
n there is a lack of spontaniety and freshness
81 about their humor that cannot be atoned
n for even by lavish stage skill and dramatic
n poIish. In their new piece they have
"a TTabicle that serves them we'll enough for
a showing off their old time and hackneyed
4 cleverness and that is about all.
n The new French opera company seems to
a have caught the town. There are more dis
] tlctivev young women i'll the chorus than
4 is usually the rule in companies of the sort,
Il and there seems to be a very fair prospect
Of success Everything is apparently run
a nmg ADbeys way now, and the fact that
u his firm has control of the new French
opera company indicates that the perfor-
mances will be of a higher order than here
81 tofore Abbey is reaching out extensively
a his old-time fashion and it will not sur
Prise anybody materially if the old-time re-
q suit follows. He has engaged company
A Of twenty-four people and the sea-
son at Wallack's Theatre, which
N he now manages, will be opened
a bv company of just seven per-
sons If the piece is successful Mr.. Abbey
will have fifteen high-priced people walk
a ing about the streets drawing salaries with
out having chance to go on the stage.
The new piece is called The Mouse Trap"
It has never been played upon any stage.
# Culiously enough, every actor in the com
8 pany and everybody connected with the
81 stage is English. Wallack's is fated to have
the Anglomaniac tinge to the last. The two
leading women are Rose Coghlan and
Florence Girard tMrs Abbey, the leading
nan is Osmond Tearle, and all of the minor
i people are direct from London. As the
n shrewdest judges of things theatrical have
claimed for years that the English
4 tendency at Wallack's Theatre is
81 what caused the downfall of the
& house, it is rather odd that so
81 shrewd man as Abbey should follow in
the same path The Wallacks seem to have
dropped entirely out of the dramatic field.
The old man, Lester Wallack, devoted some
time to rehearsing Mr. Joseph Haworth
who is playing in ''Rosedale," and Mr.. Ar
thur Wallack, the son, is more or less inter
ested in the Haworth tour. But both of
positions are of minor Importance, and the
men who once held the keynote of the en-
tire dramatic situation in America have
dropped into subservient and unimportant
positions. They wilfeventually drop out of
sight, and it is a question of very short
III time at that.
The surprise of the season seems to be Mr.
8 Frederick Bryton, whose fame is being
! rushed into prominence by the success
81 which is greeting him all about the coun-
v. ltdulIlR
Fl men, and, unlike the actors of the
II hvrle Bellew and Eben Plympton stripe,
he seems to be made of solid flesh and blood,
so that men admire him even more than
r women. His play and his success are re-
Il maTkable instances of what pluck will do
f in the lottery of theatrical successes. Bry-
ton is a brawny, square-shoul1ered, direct
& and handsome man, with unlimited conf
+ dence in himself, and a reputation for per-
foot nd TO
/ hackers. He believed he could make
a success as a star, and Nate Sauls-
n bury believed in him too. CLAY Greene
wrote play for him called Forgiven" and
III Nate Salisbury sent Bryton on the road.
81 Week after week the company lost money,
and Salisbury went to his bank account
and made good the losses This went on for
month after month, until Buffalo Bills
III partner found himself on the wrong side of
his bank account to the tune of a great
many thousand dollars Still he believed in
NJ Brvton, and Bryton believed in himself
and they kept on with unhinching courage.
The season was closed with many debts, and
Salisbury pulled himself together and APP
Piled the rest of his bank account to taking
Buffalo Bills show to England. There the
money began to pour into his pockets in
barrels full, and Bryton started out on his
second season. The faith of the hacker and of
the star was mistaken, and this time SaulS-
bury was ready and able to meet all de-
mands. But money has been pouring in
on him from his American enterprise, just
as it has been in London. Bryton's success
is the talk in theatrical circles. He has
made up all his losses, and is greeted by
crowded houses everywhere in playing over
the ground that was dreary waste to him
a year ago. Yet, if they had had a shade
less money or confidence, they would never
have gone out again this year, and SC
missed fortune. The theatrical business
is curious lottery at BEST but there seems
to be no doubt of the success of the policy
Of sticking to good thing if you happen to
get hold Of it. That has been Saulsbury's
motto, and his reward bi Is fair to be some
thing near million dollars within the next
two wears. BLAKELY HALL.
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